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Experience:
7 years
Location:
Vancouver, BC
Consults:
Virtually & in-person
Speaks:
English
Treats:
Adults
Procedural expertise
Dr. Paul Hindle is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon based in Vancouver, British Columbia, specialising in upper-extremity reconstruction and complex upper-limb trauma—treating conditions from the shoulder to the hand. He sees patients at the Footbridge Centre for Integrated Orthopaedic Care in downtown Vancouver, and operates and covers acute orthopedic call at St. Paul's Hospital.
Before emigrating to Vancouver in 2022, Dr. Hindle spent 21 years in the Royal Air Force, where he led surgical care for injured service personnel—experience that shaped a long-standing commitment to restoring patients to the highest levels of function and activity.
Dr. Hindle is also an active academic, with over $2M in research funding and 25+ peer-reviewed publications and book chapters in leading orthopedic texts to his name. In 2023, he was selected as the Canadian Society for Surgery of the Hand's representative for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand International Travelling Fellowship, visiting centres of excellence across the United States.
Outside of the clinic, Dr. Hindle is a keen skier, mountain biker, golfer, and kayaker—an active life that gives him a first-hand appreciation for why regaining function matters, and that informs his commitment to helping patients return to the activities they love.
Dr. Hindle's clinic-based practice is at the Footbridge Centre for Integrated Orthopaedic Care in downtown Vancouver, a multidisciplinary clinic and UBC integrated centre for orthopedic care that brings together sub-specialty orthopedic surgeons, sport-medicine physicians, physiotherapists, and bracing specialists in one location. He also operates and covers acute orthopedic call at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver.
Complex Trauma Fellowship | University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Upper Limb Fellowship | University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Regenerative Medicine / Cell Biology | University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) | University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England
Orthopedic Surgeon — Upper Extremity & Trauma | St. Paul's Hospital (Providence Health Care), Vancouver, BC | 2022 – Present
Orthopedic Surgeon — Upper Extremity | Footbridge Centre for Integrated Orthopaedic Care, Vancouver, BC | 2022 – Present
Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Upper Extremity, Department of Orthopaedics | Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC | Current
Wing Commander, Royal Air Force — Head of Orthopedics & Military Lead for Upper Limb Surgery | Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK
Fellow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC) Orthopedic Surgery
Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Trauma & Orthopedics, FRCS(Tr&Orth)
Member, College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (CPSBC)
2836 Ash Street
Vancouver, BC V5Z 3C6
221-181 Keefer Place
Vancouver, BC V6B 6C1
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Yes. Virtual or in-person consults are available.
Dr. Hindle can see patients who live outside British Columbia and are seeking private upper-limb orthopedic surgery — including shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, and upper-limb trauma reconstruction. If you live in British Columbia, he is generally not able to treat you privately for insured upper-limb orthopedic surgery in BC; BC residents are seen for insured upper-extremity orthopedic care through his public-system practice at St. Paul's Hospital with a referral from a family doctor or specialist.
English
Patients commonly seek Dr. Hindle's expertise because they may be experiencing chronic shoulder pain or a torn rotator cuff, elbow stiffness or instability, hand and wrist conditions such as nerve compression or tendon injuries, or ongoing problems following a complex upper-limb injury, and are considering arthroscopic (key-hole) or open shoulder surgery, elbow reconstruction, hand and wrist surgery, or trauma reconstruction of the upper limb. Dr. Hindle is fellowship-trained in upper-limb surgery at the University of Edinburgh and in complex trauma at the University of Toronto, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UBC Division of Upper Extremity.
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